Written by

Brian McNicoll

It may have seemed like so much business-as-usual Washington gridlock - one Senate committee refused to confirm Thomas Perez as Secretary of Labor on Wednesday, then another committee boycotted a hearing to postpone a vote on Gina McCarthy to serve as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday.

But there is a lot more to the McCarthy postponement. She wants to lead the EPA, but she does not want you to know what she thinks about environmental matters.

She is now the head of the Air and Radiation Office, but she does not want you to know what she thinks about air policy, coal, ...